April showers don't just mean May flowers. The spring month also blooms with iambic pentameters and tetrameters, marking National Poetry Month. Since it's birth in the Bronx in the late '70s, hip-hop has often been tied to poetry, with MCs often considering themselves spoken-word poets who rhythmically deliver prose over a beat. Ly

Artists have been known to play number games within their lyrics from time to time. Only some singers are able to carry metaphorical word problems but rappers love to implement math in a bar or two. So

The truth is KRS-One has always existed in extremes. The celebrated Bronx, N.Y., MC evolved from giving birth to the controversial rap genre known as gangsta rap to dropping a politically conscious classic. He was leader of the influential hip-hop group Boo

The National Museum of Hip-Hop, still looking to launch a physical location, has taken their cause to the public. Founders have launched a new donation initiative entitled 'Donate-A-Dollah,' which hopes to raise funds to lau

New York's Bowery Mission, one of the oldest and most storied homeless shelters in the United States, has teamed up with rapper Saigon to distribute blankets in NYC during one of the Northeast's coldest winters in recent memory. The rapper, who is set to release his long-awa

When the cash-strapped National Museum of Hip-Hop opened its doors at an event last April, KRS-Onestole the show by declaring the place illegitimate and speaking out against its lack of input from people like himself and the genre's godfather Afrika Bambaataa. Fortunately, museum founder Craig Wilson recently reached out to KRS, changing his mind and getting the iconic rapper to put his money where his mou

Ice-T, Too Short and KRS-One are about to show their expertise in the world of prostitution. No, the three rap icons aren't up to no good, they're just appearing in the rated-R documentary entitled 'GhettoPhysics: Will The Real Pimps &

As a devout KRS-One supporter, Fat Joe's been inspired by the Boogie Down Productions affiliate's verses time and again. Namely the lyrics off of 'I'm Still #1,' a track that appeared on the KRS-One's sophomore 1988 album, 'By All Means Necessary.'

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